He was the heir apparent to Franz Kafka and Ralph Ellison and pioneered the idea of ‘wokeness’ — how did he just disappear?
For decades, Barry Beckham — whose baseball novel 'Runner Mack' was inspired by Kafka — has been hiding in plain sight
For decades, Barry Beckham — whose baseball novel 'Runner Mack' was inspired by Kafka — has been hiding in plain sight
Based on a Czech novel, 'Spaceman' features Sandler as the titular voyager Jakub Procházka
The author of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' praised Jews for keeping faith with cosmopolitanism
The event feted Karl Lagerfeld, but it seemed as though Kafka was the guest of honor
Newly translated diaries shed light on the author's views on Jewish culture and customs
Sixty years after its premiere, Orson Welles' adaptation of Franz Kafka's 'The Trial' remains cinema's most vivid fever dream
And other questions raised by a new collection of the inscrutable author’s aphorisms
Samuel J. Spinner Jewish Primitivism Stanford University Press, 272 pp. According to the Russian־Jewish art critic, Abram Efros (1888-1954), modern Jewish art needs to embody two principles: European modernism and Jewish folk art. In his article, “Aladdin’s Magic Lantern,” Efros wrote that “the face of modernism is turned outwards, while folk art turns inward.” Efros’…